It has to be said, I only see this written by Americans - most commonly, for some bizarre reason, to mothers who have managed to secure themselves a glass of wine whilst simultaneously making their children's dinner- 'you GOT this! You're a ROCKSTAR mom!'Oh God, don't get me going

You come at the Queen, you best not miss.

Dr Markus wrote:Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?

It has to be said, I only see this written by Americans - most commonly, for some bizarre reason, to mothers who have managed to secure themselves a glass of wine whilst simultaneously making their children's dinner- 'you GOT this! You're a ROCKSTAR mom!'Oh God, don't get me going

echolalia wrote: I despise Prefab Sprout. It will be decades before “hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque” is surpassed as the most terrible lyric in pop history. That fucking bastard ruined all three things for me forever.

So I never heard any of the above choices except for "peeps" and I don't mind "peeps." So "peeps" connotes a clique-y, clan-y feeling not unlike how the Brits use mates. So but "peeps" are more than mates. So my family, my co-relgionists and even fellow Americans are my "peeps." So it bothered me when Obama called people at gathering "you guys."

sloopjohnc wrote:Empowered, just because it's one you're mostly likely to hear in business. The other ones are bad, but I don't hear them anymore.

Transparent is the other one i'd add. I hate that fucking phrase. It's just a fancy way of saying "clear" and businesses will never really be truthful to either employees or the public, so why pretend?

True dat.

'Empowered' and 'transparent' are awful.

'Integrity' is another highlight. Actually, when a politician or CEO or banker uses it, it means that he just (but only just) will refrain from stealing your wallet out of your back pocket in the open, and that only because there might be some CC camera up there that records this.

In this context, please allow me to present to you a wonderful, well-written, and caustic acount of Bill Deresewiecz in Harper's, about the damage that neoliberalism has done to universities worldwide: